Introduction - Tony Collins 1. ‘An Excellent Means of Combining Fresh Air, Exercise and Society’ Females on the Fairways, 1890-1914 - Jane George 2. Still Going After All These Years: Text, Truth and the Racing Calendar - Joyce Kay 3. The Proto-globalisation of Horseracing 1730-1900: Anglo-American Interconnections - Mike Huggins 4. What Went Wrong with Counting? Thinking about Sport and Class in Britain and Ireland - Mike Cronin 5. Australian Sport History: From the Founding Years to Today - Daryl Adair 6. The Tyranny of Deference: Anglo-Australian Relations and Rugby Union before World War Two - Tony Collins 7. Boxers United: Trade Unionism in British Boxing in the 1930s - Matthew Taylor 8. Deeply Honoured: The Rise and Significance of the British Sporting Award, 1945-c.1970 - Dave Russell 9. ‘In a Yorkshire Like Way’: Cricket and the Construction of Regional Identity in Nineteenth Century Yorkshire - Rob Light 10. ‘Egg and Chips with the Connellys’: Remembering 1966 - Dilwyn Porter 11. Wray Vamplew: A Bibliography 1969-2008 - Richard W. Cox
Biography
Tony Collins is Professor of the Social History of Sport at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. As well as writing a trilogy on the history of rugby - Rugby’s Great Split, Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain and A Social History of English Rugby Union - he has also worked with Wray Vamplew on the Encyclopedia of Traditional Rural Sports (all published by Routledge) and Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol.
